Spooler-guide.



No. 836,137. PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906 J. M. PARKER.

SPOOLER GUIDE. APPLICATION FILED 00124. 1906.

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Attorneys.

UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented Nov. 20, 190s.

A licati n fil d October 24, 1905. Serial No. 284,186.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MONROE PAR- KER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orangeburg, in the county of Orangeburg and State of South Carolina,- have invented a new and useful Spooler-Guide, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to spooler-guides.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel form of spooler-guide'which shall be thoroughly effective in preventing the passage of knotty or mote-bearing threads to the spools and which shall be capable of being adjustable to suit threads of different diameters. I With the above and other objects in View, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a spooler-guide, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Inthe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a view in front elevation exhibiting the guide attached to the supporting-rail of a spooler-machine. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the spooler-guide with the parts detached to show the manner in which they are constructed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken at a right angle to Fig. 1.

The spooler-guide embodies, as usual, a base 1, with which is combined a yarn-rest 2, disposed at right angles to the base, and a yarnguide 3, disposed at right angles tothe yarnrest. By preference the' base, rest, 'and guide are cast integral, although, if preferred, they may be made as se arate elements and suitably assembled. T e base carries an ordinary clip 4, which engages the supporting-rail R of the spooler-machine, being held combined therewith by a screw 5, the head (which is not shown) being disposed against the inner side of. the base and is movable in a slot 6 in order to permit the base to be adjusted as required.

One end of the yarn-rest is provided with a vertical groove or channel 7, in which fits a casting 8, carrying an arm 9. The casting is provided with an elongated orifice 10, through which passes a screw'll, that engages a threaded orifice in the end of the yarn-rest, and thereby holds the casting at any desired adjustment relatively to the rest.

The arm 9 supports a yarn-knife 13, with which is combined an inclined yarn-guide 14. Projecting from one face of the yarn guide are two orificed lugs and 16, that are engaged by the arm 9, as clearly shown in Fig.

1. The yarn-knife 13 is combined with the on the upper side of the yarn-rest constitutes a yarn-gate,- the member 19 being projected inward beyond the inner face of the arm 17, thus to prevent the yarn from working out from under the knife when once positioned upon the yarn-rest.

As shown in Fig. 2, both the yarn-knife and yarn-rest are hollow structures, and this will permit the ready escape from the machine of any motes or other impurities separated from the yarn.

As the upper edge 20 of the base is disposed in the same plane as theyarn-rest 2, it

.constitutes a supplemental yarn-rest, the same being true of the lower edge 21 of the yarn-guide 14, which forms a supplemental yarn-knife, so that in the operation of the divice the yarn is subjected to two scraping or cleaning actions, which will be thoroughly effective in removing motes, &c.

The yarn-guide is loosely mounted upon the arm and will freely rock, and'thus yield to the passage of the yarn; but should a knot or large mote contact with the front yarnknife 13 the rear knife 21 will be forced down upon the yarn-rest 2, and thus prevent the passage of the knot beyond the last-named rest. By the employment of the duplex yarnrests and yarn-knives a more efiec'tive and thorough cleaning of the :yarn can be secured than where only one of each of these elements ,is employed as with ordinary machines.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1, A spooler-guide having a plurality of yarn-rests, and a plurality of yarn-knives pivotally mounted adjacent said yarn-rests and connected with each other so that when one knife is moved away fro its yarn-rest the other knife will be movedtoward its yarnrest.

2. The combination with a base provided IIO witha yarn-rest, of an adjustable arm carried thereby and'a yarn-knife mounted for pivo al movements on the arm.

3. The combination with a base provided at one end with one member of a y rn-gate, and at its other end with a channel, of a yarnknife provided at.'one end with the other member of the yarn-gate, and with a pair of orificed lugs, a casting adjustably secured in the channel, and an arm carried by the casting and engaging the lugs.

4. The combination with a base provided with a pair of yam-rests, and having at one end a yarn-guide and one member of a varngate and at its other end a channel, of a yarn- I 5 knife having at one end the other member of the yarn-gate and provided with a pair of orificed lugs, a casting adjustably mounted in the channel, and an arm carried by the casting and engaging the lugs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. 1

J MONROE PARKER.

Witnesses:

D. N. SMITH, G. L. DALLEY. 

